Does anybody else think we just experienced a 24 month year? It seems to me 2021 and 2022 got smooshed all together. Are we in some kind of jokey feedback loop?
My journal has the same entries over and over. It’s Ground Hog Day all over again where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over until he gets it right.
In 2021 one of us was sick at New Years. In 2022 it was Thanksgiving and Christmas.
In 2021-22 the mainstream news was awful, the fringe news services worse. The weather was awful and was the year of too much. It was either too much fire, too much snow or too much rain. The government wasn’t governing. There was war, there were refugees, people were sick and tired of being sick and tired. Guns seemed to be the method of choice to settle arguments.
2021-22 was the year of complaining and dissatisfaction, too. Everything was expensive. Gas was expensive, food was expensive, all the stuff we want to buy (but don’t need) was expensive. Who can we blame?
My writing stalled, my desk is still a mess. I didn’t clean my closet, even my weight hit a plateau and stayed there week after week.
I swore off social media and then went back to it. I spent too much time escaping into streaming pointless television shows (where no one watches television, by the way). At the same time I read articles about how detrimental too much screen time can be to my brain. Can you say cognitive dissonance?
All this push-me pull-you has made me tired as 2023 starts. What do we need to learn so we can move forward? I don’t want to have a 2021-22-23. How do we make it to the other side?
Short of an asteroid hitting us a la Don’t Look Up (currently running on Netflix) that is.
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